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After a recent system outage, International Wildlife Bond is back – consolidating IWBond.org and the former blog page InternationalWildlifeBond1 to a single site. The archive of past News and Studies is retained at IWBond.org, but any past third-party links from InternationalWildlifeBond1 will need to be rerouted by those third-parties to …
Let’s take a look back at 2025 and see if we are moving forward, or regressing when it comes to wildlife conservation. South Africa In November 2025, a cabinet reshuffle confirmed that Democratic Alliance (DA) leader and Agriculture Minister John Steenhuisen has requested the removal of Dr Dion George as …
This July marks ten years on from Cecil the lion’s killing by Walter Palmer. The hunting industry still panders to the trophy hunters’ willingness to pay handsomely to enjoy ‘legally’ (though all those implicated are morally and ethically bankrupt) killing animals. Trophy hunters enjoy killing animals, otherwise they wouldn’t do …
By Don Pinnock – “How the world’s top trophy hunters are killing off leopards,” The Daily Maverick, 9 June 2025 A new report documents unabated hunting despite leopard numbers plummeting across Africa. At night, in the African bush, a zebra carcass dangles from a tree, rigged as bait. Nearby, a hunter waits …
Hello and best wishes for 2025. In the meantime, let’s take a quick look at 2024, covering some of the usual review topics. Illegal Wildlife Trade Social media is fuelling the illegal wildlife trade – “Social media has become a crucial tool for wildlife traffickers, experts say. A growing number …
Banner Image: Dr Dion George, The Minister of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment – courtesy of DFFE Consultation submissions invited within 30 day (from 15 November 2024) – Government Notice 5555 of 2024 “National Environmental Management: Biodiversity Act (10/2004): Consultation on the Draft Notice prohibiting certain activities involving African Lion (Panthera …
Banner image – Generic licensed image of cheetah with young cubs “‘Notorious’ trophy hunter brags about killing cheetah cubs – posting dead bodies online,” Daily Mirror, 26 August 2024 “My name is Cameron Hopkins and I proudly killed three cheetah cubs… I’d do it again under the same circumstances….A mother …
Banner Image: Amboseli icons Tim and Kilimanjaro, Amboseli National Park 2016, Kenya – image courtesy ElephantVoices A letter titled “Stop elephant hunting in Tanzania borderlands” appeared in Science journal 19 July 2024 – the letter was jointly authored by twenty four eminent scientists and advocates, with the letter first published …
As reported in the Daily Maverick (18 March 2024), the Republic of South Africa Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment (DFFE) invited submissions regarding the “draft National Biodiversity Economy Strategy (NBES)“ as notified in Government Gazette, No. 50279, dated 8 March 2024. As well as expanding ‘conservation areas’ the draft NBES …
At the 2019 General Election, both major parties included a ban on trophy imports in their manifestos. The Hunting Trophies (Import Prohibition) Bill passed unanimously in the House of Commons in 2023, but was subsequently blocked by a tiny group of unelected peers in the House of Lords. A new …
